"Where's the Lafonda Hotel ?"
"Over there, by the stores."
"Nah, not over there. What's the name of the street ?"
"You take this. Put it in your pocket. Don't lose it."
"Nah, I'm not buying any souveniers."
"No no, you don't buy. You keep it. It protect you."
5 right to the gut
"Well, you come in on the 4 o'clock bus, sat up all the way from Washington D.C., that was a cute little trick you pulled with your note for Frank Hugo to find his room number. You went up there and waited until he phoned he wasn't coming back 'till tomorrow, also, you haven't had any lunch, neither have I, how about a bite ?"
"Oye ! Chato, give everybody drink, free drink for everybody. Pancho is buying! You lend me $10.00, I pay you tomorrow eh?"
"Hey what's the matter, you don't feel good ? You drink whole bottle but don't feel good ? That's bad."
"Amigo. I feel fine."
"Ride the pink one..."
"I can't talk to him now. No more calls 'till I let you know."
"If you like your friend, why don't you help him ? Do you know what kind of trouble he's in ?"
"Yes. He will die, maybe."
"Do you like ? Do I look human ?"
"You don't know me, you have no reason to believe anything I say, but you can't lose anything by listening. You're a fool only asking for 30,000 ! Do you know what he'd ask for in your place ? A million, and gotten it."
" I shouldn't be telling you this, you certainly haven't done anything to deserve it, but there isn't any bank messenger coming...there's someone else..."
"Somebody else was hurt ?"
"Yes, two, one is dead."
"Aye, good, bueno,bueno,bueno."
"Go ahead Gagin, be a sucker, walk out on yourself. You come here to pick up some easy money, just as it's in your pocket, you walk out. This guy makes me laugh ! His idea of big money. He's got me right where it hurts and all he asks for is 30 grand. Guys like you work all their lives, breaking their backs trying to earn meat and potatoes. You end up borrowing enough money to buy a hole in the ground to get buried in. Then when you get a chance to make some real scratch, what do you do, mice like you and shorty, you ask for peanuts. You know what's gonna happen when you get out of here, he's gonna give you a lot of gas about duty and honour, fill you with fancy words like responsibility, patriotism. That's how he's gonna get that cheque, and what are you gonna have ? Nuthin' ! Sure maybe I'll get sent to the pen, a lot of bucks that'll put in your pocket. I don't know why I talk to a lug like you. Small fry, all your life you worry about small fry things, about a job, about a 2 buck raise, about gettin' a pension. Why don't you ask for 300 grand ? 300,000 bucks, Gagin. That'll set you up for the rest of your life !"
"We all same kind of peoples. We all born for be broke."
"Goodbye señior."
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